He is the great deceiver. Anyone that would follow him blindly would be lead right off a cliff into a pit of alligators, who then excrete you into the dirtiest most rotten crap that rest at the bottom of a body of water for eternity.

Yep... he is the either one giant idiot, or trying to lead people to destruction. Since he became president and graduated from Harvard, I am going to go ahead and say he is a criminal sociopath.

Well technically he's right.You see, if you have a maxed-out credit card with a $10,000 limit, and you've reached the limit.Then increasing the limit to $15,000, and not spending another single penny, you have not increased your debt.

But we all know where this will go.

(edit) Sorry for stealing your gif, it's just so fitting for the man.

Quoting: Sikhed

You bet your ass we know where it'll go....

1980 - 1 Trillion Debt2000 - 4 Trillion Debt2013 - 16 Trillion Debt

36 years and the debt increased 16x! It took over 200 years to get to a Trillion for fuck sake!

WELL considering that the debt is unpayable by any calculations, it actually doesnt matter. Why not a 50 trillion dollar debt? 100 trillion? When the amount is jnot payable, the amount may as well be nothing.

WELL considering that the debt is unpayable by any calculations, it actually doesnt matter. Why not a 50 trillion dollar debt? 100 trillion? When the amount is jnot payable, the amount may as well be nothing.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45349696

Unfortunately, you're right.

What is also unfortunate is that the whole ponzi scheme is about to crash.

And yet, I'll bet the Borg believe this without question.The trick will be for his apologists to twist this into something resembling a statement made by a sane man. I'm dying to see what they come up with.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan

WELL considering that the debt is unpayable by any calculations, it actually doesnt matter. Why not a 50 trillion dollar debt? 100 trillion? When the amount is jnot payable, the amount may as well be nothing.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45349696

But it's like a train wrecking at the end of the line.100 mph is going to hurt a lot worse than 50 mph.

In a speech at the Business Roundtable headquarters in Washington, D.C., Obama dismissed concerns about raising the debt ceiling by noting that it'd been done so many times in the past:

"Now, this debt ceiling -- I just want to remind people in case you haven't been keeping up -- raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy. All it does is it says you got to pay the bills that you've already racked up, Congress. It's a basic function of making sure that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved."

Obama went on to suggest that "the average person" mistakenly thinks that raising the debt ceiling means the U.S. is racking up more debt:

In a speech at the Business Roundtable headquarters in Washington, D.C., Obama dismissed concerns about raising the debt ceiling by noting that it'd been done so many times in the past:

"Now, this debt ceiling -- I just want to remind people in case you haven't been keeping up -- raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy. All it does is it says you got to pay the bills that you've already racked up, Congress. It's a basic function of making sure that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved."

Obama went on to suggest that "the average person" mistakenly thinks that raising the debt ceiling means the U.S. is racking up more debt:

So I dont really understand this whole debt ceiling thing... I read a wikipedia definition of it, but still dont get it... can anyone here break it down in lay-mans terms for me?

If I had to guess, the ceiling is the point where if we reach it, we will default, like its a limit... but if hes saying that raising that ceiling doesnt mean raising our debt... then wtf... i dunno.. maybe i do get it... but his words are just f-ing with me... any help?

It's simple things like this that make me not take people seriously when they get all worked up and angrily rant about certain things. We allow such ridiculous things to happen. Someone getting venomous over an insulting word or a honked horn.. Yet that same person may hear a politician lie and just say "Oh well they all do that." If you can brush off a politician not representing the people, why do you not brush off minor inconveniences. Angry over a parking spot or wait in line... Make excuses for a lying official because he wears blue instead of red.. And vice versa.

We are clearly insane as a people. There is no consistency. Somehow the acceptance of that has made me content. Now I can laugh and make a joke out of just about everything. That makes me happy. Join me. It's fun!

They say that if we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. They also say that history is written by the victorious.

What I have learned from history is that the recorded accounts of humanity's past are nearly always manipulated for the benefit of the current ruling power's agenda.

Put faith in your own personal history, or submit to the future of another's.

It's simple things like this that make me not take people seriously when they get all worked up and angrily rant about certain things. We allow such ridiculous things to happen. Someone getting venomous over an insulting word or a honked horn.. Yet that same person may hear a politician lie and just say "Oh well they all do that." If you can brush off a politician not representing the people, why do you not brush off minor inconveniences. Angry over a parking spot or wait in line... Make excuses for a lying official because he wears blue instead of red.. And vice versa.

We are clearly insane as a people. There is no consistency. Somehow the acceptance of that has made me content. Now I can laugh and make a joke out of just about everything. That makes me happy. Join me. It's fun!

Quoting: Poche'

I respect your decision, but I choose to give a damn and not drink the "Dont Worry Be Happy" Kool-aid. All is not well. Washington is seriously screwed up, starting with the bozo in the White House.

It's unclear to me that Obomba and his clown crew inner-circle know how to tie their shoelaces, nevermind run the USofA.

Guys, face it. The cryptocrats are just using the president to piss in our face. I swear the fucking CIA is just sitting back and coming up with stupid shit to make their goddamn puppet say and laughing their asses off the whole time.